2025: Ny-year, Nyland

Big plans for 2025

Everything fell into place

The passing year ended on a high note: I feel like everything just fell into place:

• I successfully transitioned back into contracting and having business income 🙌

• Decode Estonian made around 16k gross 🎉

• and I found the right person ❤️

And together we got Hani in October – essentially turning us into a little family.

🚀 2025 is launch year

🏡 Launch nyland.retreat

The main focus is on getting the house in Nyland up and running financially.

To that end, many volunteers contributed their labor and turned the place into a nice space.

In January the upper floor will get a new bathroom and then we’re really close to the finish line.

Furniture will be the final touch and then the place is ready to be filled with life.

The model is still a club – I just need to find 10 more parties to join, and then this project is “done”.

⚙️ Develop my craft

Being in a developer role again at Modash, I’m motivated to get better at my craft.

This means:

• achieving mastery of the tools used in this project (learning topics for me: MongoDB, getting to know AWS services in detail)

• providing solutions to business problems, and communicating accordingly

I want Modash to be happy about having me on board.

🇪🇪 Launch learn.decode.ee

In the weeks leading up to Christmas, I’ve been busily working on my own platform for learning Estonian – based on the belief that consuming native content is the best way to develop your language skills.

Progress has been good, a few critical features are missing before it is considered “good enough” to fill the platform with actual content.

Launching the project means creating the first digital income stream for Decode Estonian and thus taking the first important step to a future where I have time and money.

🇸🇪 Sverige och Svenska

It’s time to learn Swedish, for good.

I’m tired of not being able to express myself and depending on others for language-related help when doing business in Nyland.

Besides getting fluent in Swedish, I also plan on making it to Nyland at least once per quarter, to keep an eye on things and also just enjoy the results of working on this project for so long.

🐌 What’s not happening

Diving into the numbers has shown me that I can’t have everything I want in 12 months, money being the main bottleneck.

🐪 Garaažistan ~ گاراژستان

Renovating and extending Garaažistan to host workshops and other events has to be postponed to 2026 for lack of funds.

Having the building renovated and existing as a nice space costs an estimated 50k EUR, which I’ll first need to earn.

❓Major changes

The how and what are not going to change much in 2025.

I won’t:

• change my business partner,

• move to another place,

• work from a different café,

It’s all about doing more of the same, because all of the things I’m doing are already taking me in the right direction.